Rachel Abercrombie

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Rachel Abercrombie

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Physical Geography

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Rachel Abercrombie's Degrees

PhD Geophysics Stanford University
Masters Geophysics Stanford University
Bachelors Geology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Rachel Abercrombie is a seismologist at Boston University known for her research on the process of earthquake ruptures. Education and career Abercrombie has a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from the University of Reading . Following her Ph.D. she worked in California at the Southern California Earthquake Center and at the University of Southern California. After three years in New Zealand at the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, she went to Harvard University from 1998 to 2001. She joined Boston University in 2001, and became a Research Associate Professor in 2006.

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Rachel Abercrombie's Published Works

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Earthquake source scaling relationships from −1 to 5 ML using seismograms recorded at 2.5‐km depth (1995) (741)
Can observations of earthquake scaling constrain slip weakening (2005) (334)
A Common Origin for Aftershocks, Foreshocks, and Multiplets (2002) (249)
Depth dependence of earthquake frequency‐magnitude distributions in California: Implications for rupture initiation (1997) (227)
Triggering of the 1999 MW 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake by aftershocks of the 1992 MW 7.3 Landers earthquake (2002) (212)
Source parameters of small earthquakes recorded at 2.5 km depth, Cajon Pass, southern California: Implications for earthquake scaling (1993) (201)
Near-surface attenuation and site effects from comparison of surface and deep borehole recordings (1997) (184)
Earthquake slip on oceanic transform faults (2001) (174)
The 1994 Java tsunami earthquake: Slip over a subducting seamount (2001) (148)
The June 2000 Mw 7.9 earthquakes south of Sumatra: Deformation in the India–Australia Plate (2003) (128)
Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting (2013) (128)
Occurrence patterns of foreshocks to large earthquakes in the western United States (1996) (126)
Investigating uncertainties in empirical Green's function analysis of earthquake source parameters (2015) (118)
Spatial migration of earthquakes within seismic clusters in Southern California: Evidence for fluid diffusion (2012) (107)
Stress drops and radiated energies of aftershocks of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake (2003) (93)
The 2002 M5 Au Sable Forks, NY, earthquake sequence: Source scaling relationships and energy budget (2010) (92)
Stress drops and radiated seismic energies of microearthquakes in a South African gold mine (2007) (87)
Stress drops of repeating earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield (2014) (86)
Secondary Aftershocks and Their Importance for Aftershock Forecasting (2003) (85)
The magnitude-frequency distribution of earthquakes recorded with deep seismometers at Cajon Pass (1996) (74)
Source parameters and rupture velocity of small M ≤ 2.1 reservoir induced earthquakes (2009) (74)
The 14 November 2001 Kokoxili (Kunlunshan), Tibet, Earthquake: Rupture Transfer through a Large Extensional Step-Over (2004) (67)
A Summary of Attenuation Measurements from Borehole Recordings of Earthquakes: The 10 Hz Transition Problem (1998) (64)
Variability of earthquake stress drop in a subduction setting, the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (2016) (62)
Comparison of direct and coda wave stress drop measurements for the Wells, Nevada, earthquake sequence (2013) (56)
Frequency dependent crustal scattering and absorption at 5–160 Hz from coda decay observed at 2.5 km Depth (1994) (55)
The role of fluids in triggering earthquakes: observations from reservoir induced seismicity in Brazil (2010) (52)
Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle (2017) (50)
The enigma of the Arthur's Pass, New Zealand, earthquake: 1. Reconciling a variety of data for an unusual earthquake sequence (2000) (49)
Complex spatiotemporal evolution of the 2008 Mw 4.9 Mogul earthquake swarm (Reno, Nevada): Interplay of fluid and faulting (2016) (48)
Earthquake Directivity, Orientation, and Stress Drop Within the Subducting Plate at the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (2017) (48)
Evidence for a constant b-value above magnitude 0 in the southern San Andreas, San Jacinto and San Miguel Fault Zones, and at the Long Valley Caldera, California (1994) (46)
Seismic attenuation above 10 Hz in southern California from coda waves recorded in the Cajon Pass borehole (1998) (45)
Comparing EGF Methods for Estimating Corner Frequency and Stress Drop From P Wave Spectra (2019) (42)
Spatiotemporal Variation of Stress Drop During the 2008 Mogul, Nevada, Earthquake Swarm (2017) (41)
The missing sinks : Slip localization in faults, damage zones, and the seismic energy budget (2013) (40)
A reassessment of the rupture characteristics of oceanic transform earthquakes (2003) (39)
Resolution and uncertainties in estimates of earthquake stress drop and energy release (2021) (37)
Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 Mw 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake (2020) (35)
The nucleation and rupture process of the 1981 Gulf of Corinth earthquakes from deconvolved broad-band data (1995) (35)
Rupture characteristics of the 2003 Mw 7.6 mid‐Indian Ocean earthquake: Implications for seismic properties of young oceanic lithosphere (2006) (32)
Crustal attenuation and site effects at Parkfield, California (2000) (31)
Earthquake locations using single‐station deep borehole recordings: Implications for microseismicity on the San Andreas fault in southern California (1995) (30)
Evidence of Aseismic and Fluid‐Driven Processes in a Small Complex Seismic Swarm Near Virginia City, Nevada (2020) (26)
Seismotectonics of a diffuse plate boundary: Observations off the Sumatra‐Andaman trench (2016) (25)
The MW 6.2 Cass, New Zealand, earthquake of 24 November 1995: Reverse faulting in a strike‐slip region (2000) (25)
Testing a model of earthquake nucleation (1995) (23)
Effects of Methods of Attenuation Correction on Source Parameter Determination (2013) (22)
Radiated energy and the physics of earthquake faulting (2005) (21)
Small earthquake scaling revisited: Can it constrain slip weakening (2001) (21)
Source Complexity of the 2015 Mw 4.0 Guthrie, Oklahoma Earthquake (2019) (19)
Repeating earthquakes record fault weakening and healing in areas of megathrust postseismic slip (2020) (18)
Seismicity at the Northern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, and Investigation of the Potential Spatial and Temporal Relationships With a Shallow Slow Slip Event (2019) (17)
Fractal fracture scattering origin of S-wave coda : spectral evidence from recordings at 2.5 Km (1994) (17)
Does Earthquake Stress Drop Increase With Depth in the Crust? (2021) (16)
The 2015 Mw 7.1 earthquake on the Charlie‐Gibbs transform fault: Repeating earthquakes and multimodal slip on a slow oceanic transform (2016) (15)
Well Proximity Governing Stress Drop Variation and Seismic Attenuation Associated With Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Earthquakes (2020) (12)
Improved approach for stress drop estimation and its application to an induced earthquake sequence in Oklahoma (2020) (12)
Repeating Earthquakes With Remarkably Repeatable Ruptures on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield (2020) (11)
Determination of fault planes in a complex aftershock sequence using two‐dimensional slip inversion (2001) (11)
Cross Validation of Stress Drop Estimates and Interpretations for the 2011 Prague, OK, Earthquake Sequence Using Multiple Methods (2021) (11)
Seismic Rupture on an Oceanic–Continental Plate Boundary: Strike‐Slip Earthquakes along the Queen Charlotte–Fairweather Fault (2015) (11)
Earthquake Interaction, Fault Structure, and Source Properties of a Small Sequence in 2017 near Truckee, California (2018) (11)
Seismology: The start of something big? (2005) (11)
Regional Wave Propagation in New England and New York (2010) (9)
Adapting the Matched-Filter Search to a Wide-Aperture Network: An Aftershock Sequence and an Earthquake Swarm in Connecticut (2018) (7)
Reliable and economical high-temperature deep-borehole seismic recording (1996) (6)
Shear-wave anisotropy and the stress field from borehole recordings at 2.5 km depth at Cajon Pass (1997) (6)
Small and large earthquakes can have similar starts (2019) (5)
Near Trench 3D Seismic Attenuation Offshore Northern Hikurangi Subduction Margin, North Island, New Zealand (2021) (4)
Calibrating Spectral Decomposition of Local Earthquakes Using Borehole Seismic Records—Results for the 1992 Big Bear Aftershocks in Southern California (2021) (4)
Regional bias in estimates of earthquake Ms due to surface-wave path effects: Bulletin - Seismological Society of America, 84 (2), 1994, pp 377–382 (1994) (4)
Regional bias in estimates of earthquake MS due to surface-wave path effects (1994) (3)
Strong motion modelling of the 1993 Tikokino earthquake, southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand (1998) (3)
The 2016 Nine Mile Ranch Earthquakes: Hazard and Tectonic Implications of Orthogonal Conjugate Faulting in the Walker Lane (2022) (3)
Robust Analysis of Stress Drop Variation along San Andreas Fault at Parkfield Using Multiple Local Networks (2018) (2)
Back-propagating super-shear rupture in the 2016 M7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake (2020) (2)
Crustal Strength Variations Inferred From Earthquake Stress Drop at Axial Seamount Surrounding the 2015 Eruption (2020) (2)
SEISMIC SOURCE SCALING AND DISCRIMINATION IN DIVERSE TECTONIC ENVIRONMENTS (2007) (2)
Improved Stress Drop Estimates for M 1.5 to 4 Earthquakes in Southern California From 1996 to 2019 (2022) (2)
In Jules Verne's Footsteps: Seismology in the source (2001) (2)
Local seismicity around the Chain Transform Fault at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from OBS observations (2023) (2)
Resolving the spatiotemporal variability of small earthquake source parameters at Parkfield and their relationship with 2004M6 Parkfield earthquake (2019) (1)
How Good are our Source Parameter Estimates for Small Earthquakes (2002) (1)
The Role of Fluids in Triggering Earthquakes: Observations From Reservoir Induced Earthquakes (2008) (1)
Inside an Earthquake Swarm: Objective Identification and Analysis of Spatiotemporal Subclusters of the Mogul 2008 Earthquake Swarm in Reno, NV (2015) (1)
Source Parameters of Reservoir-Induced Small Earthquakes: Can We Resolve Rupture Velocity? (2003) (1)
Quantifying the Sensitivity of Microearthquake Slip Inversions to Station Distribution Using a Dense Nodal Array (2022) (1)
Improving Earthquake Stress Drop Measurements - What can we Really Resolve? (2015) (1)
Plain Language Summary Required for Submission to Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2021) (1)
A Seismic Hazards Overview of the Urban Regions of Nevada: Recent Advancements and Research Directions (2019) (1)
Source Parameters of the Upper-Mantle September 21, 2013 Mw4.8 Wyoming Earthquake (2014) (1)
Seismogenic Depth Variation across the Transtensional Northern Walker Lane (2020) (1)
The June 2000Mw7.9 earthquakes south of Sumatra: Deformation in the India-Australia Plate: THE JUNE 2000 INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKES (2003) (0)
Final Technical Report Award Number: 04HQGR0166 REGIONAL WAVE PROPAGATION IN NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WITH BOSTON UNIVERSITY AND TUFTS (2006) (0)
Thank You to Our 2019 Reviewers (2020) (0)
The 2014 M w 6.2 Eketahuna earthquake, Hikurangi subduction zone - normal faulting in the subducted Pacific Plate crust (2014) (0)
Seismological Analysis of Induced Earthquakes in Central Oklahoma, Comparing a Large Seismogenic Fault with M5 Earthquakes and Small Faults Lacking M4 Events (2016) (0)
Influence of Fault Architecture on Induced Earthquake Sequence Evolution Revealed by High‐Resolution Focal Mechanism Solutions (2022) (0)
Stress Drop and Directivity Patterns Observed in Small-Magnitude ( (2017) (0)
Source parameters estimation of reservoir-induced earthquakes in northeastern Brazil using Empirical Green´s Function analysis (2006) (0)
Earthquake Source Properties from P-wave Spectra (2016) (0)
Earthquake stress drop: what can we resolve from observations, and what can we infer about earthquake triggering processes (2020) (0)
High-Resolution Relocations of Digital-Era Seismicity and Stress Field Estimates in the Vicinity of the Nevada National Security Site, Southern Nevada (2016) (0)
Physics of Earthquakes: The Real Earthshaking Science (2019) (0)
Thank You to Our 2021 Peer Reviewers (2022) (0)
Stress drops and uncertainty resolution of repeating earthquakes at Parkfield (2017) (0)
Rupture Transfer through a Large Extensional StepOver by (2004) (0)
Broadband Rupture Process of the 2001 Kunlun Fault (Mw 7.8) Earthquake (2003) (0)
Back-propagating super-shear rupture in the 2016 Mw7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake (2019) (0)
Spatial variations of stress drop within individual sequences: implications for earthquake triggering (2017) (0)
Rupture Characteristics and Aftershocks of the July 15, 2003 Carlsberg `H' (Indian Ocean) M w 7.6 Earthquake (2003) (0)
Scaling and Stress Release in the Darfield-Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake Sequence (2014) (0)
Thank You to Our 2020 Peer Reviewers (2021) (0)
Spatiotemporal Variability of Earthquake Source Parameters at Parkfield, California, and Their Relationship With the 2004 M6 Earthquake (2021) (0)
Finite fault modeling of oceanic strike-slip earthquakes (2014) (0)
Strain rates, stress markers and earthquake clustering (Invited) (2013) (0)
Quantifying earthquake source parameter uncertainties associated with local site effects using a dense array (2021) (0)
Depth distribution of seismic slip in oceanic lithosphere: Observations following the April 2012 great earthquakes (2012) (0)
Slip Localization in Faults, Fault Thickness, and Seismic Energy Budgets (2006) (0)
The M8.1 Intraplate, Strike-Slip Macquarie Earthquake of 23 December 2004 (2006) (0)
Stress Drop Variations During the 2009 Dusky Sound Sequence, New Zealand, Using Empirical Greens Function Methods (2012) (0)

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